The Boston Herald's Friday Throwdown topic is: Occupy Boston: Rebels or whiners. We love the idea of participation in any public forum. But, we have a pretty good idea of what the Herald forum will produce and much of it won't be pro-Occupy Boston. That is being kind, honestly. Think train wreck.
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It's the deadline to file your income taxes unless you live in a county that was rain-soaked in March. [Boston Globe]
For better or worse, casino gambling in the Bay State has cleared its first legislative hurdle. [WBUR]
We may not get to say this again: Iceland's volcanic activity has canceled flights in and out of Logan. [Boston Herald]
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The FBI is in the process of releasing their files on Ted Kennedy, and the first batch is about 3,000 pages. [Boston Globe]
A shipwrecked British ship from Revolutionary War era has been partially uncovered near Provincetown. [Cape Cod Times]
Sarah Palin is partying with teabaggers in Boston this week, but Scott Brown is flaking on his most enthusiastic supporters. [Boston Herald]
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Results tagged “teaparty”
This weekend is the 20th Anniversary of the UMass Extravaganja, a festival designed to promote the legalization of marijuana. A group of 14 wounded veterans are in Boston to compete in the 2011 Boston Marathon. They are reportedly "close to death." Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Barney Frank is the subject of the Playboy magazine interview for May. The big news to Bostonist is that Frank found common ground with the Tea Party. Frank supports the Tea Party's calls to "trim government spending." Frank is one of the more prominent, and outspoken, liberals in Congress. He touched on many controvesial issues in the progressive Playboy.
Beginning on Ash Wednesday, today, Cardinal Sean O'Malley is spending $600,000 on the "Catholics Come Home" program to bring lapsed Catholics back to church. Consumers lodged a lot of complaints over auto insurance to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Lynn residents are raising money for the teenage shoveler who was mugged. A girl from Hingham got hurt sledding. There's actually a school for Tea Party candidates. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
New Hampshire Republicans sent mixed signals to the rest of us regarding the next presidential election. They supported an establishment candidate (Mitt Romney) in a 2012 presidential straw poll and picked a Tea Party supporter as the state's party chair.
Hey, Third Berkshire District, you can leave your tops on. That's right, 70% of voters defeated a nonbinding ballot question yesteday that tried to allow women to go topless n public. Katherine Gundelfinger, 39, of Pittsfield, proposed the measure.
The Globe tells us the 21st Century Tea Party is relevant politically in Massachusetts. They needed new polling data to say it?
Senate President Therese Murray's comments made in May attacking the Tea Party movement and appeared to defend illegal immigration are now circulating among right-leaning media. Michael Graham of WTKK started spreading Murray's comments on his blog on Tuesday.
Senator Scott Brown may have a bought a teeny tiny apartment (Did he let wife Gail Huff see it first?) in Washington, D.C., but he has really big poll numbers in Massachusetts.
The Boston Globe reports Brown is the "most popular officeholder in Massachusetts" in a poll conducted by UNH last week. His 55% favorability rating tops President Obama (54%) and Senator John F. Kerry (52%) and other prominent Democrats. The poll also found that one-fourth of Bay State residents support Tea Party Groups while 71% of Tea Partyers are Pro-Brown.
The Globe says Democrats are concerned about running against the popular Brown in 2012 and want Vicki Kennedy to run against him. Please don't run, Vicki. Bostonist isn't issuing a backdoor endorsement of Brown. The idea of her running for Ted Kennedy's former job isn't an appealing one to us.
Yesterday, Sarah Palin gave a Tea Party on Boston Common to protest taxes, and it proceeded in fairly predictable fashion. According to reports, Palin rehashed lines like "We'll keep clinging to our Constitution and our guns and religion - and you can keep the change" and "Let's drill, baby, drill" for an excited audience of astonishingly ignorant people. One infiltrator asserts that "They played taps and I had to tell people to take their hats off," and goes on to provide our favorite excerpt from the protest:
- Tea Party summary: Cut taxes, drill baby drill, you betcha. [WBZ]
- There some memorable photos of today's Tea Party rally. [WCVB]
- Partners HealthCare offered $40 million to Massachusetts to help reduce insurance rate increases for small businesses. [Boston Globe]
- Mansfield's school committee has voted to eliminate all high school sports because a $1.8 million budget gap. [WBZ]
Bostonist correspondent MacDuff Stewart made it out to the Common this afternoon to snap some photos of teabaggers in action. Frankly, it's not as dirty as you'd think it would be.
The big day is approaching and the counterprotests are brewing (ha, HA!). In less than 24 hours, Sarah Palin will be launching the Sarah Palin Network protesting taxation with representation (from Massachusetts voters' favorite son, even) on Boston Common. Scott Brown himself, being the very "representation" taxpayers voted for and are now upset about having (perhaps because he likes benefits too much), has declined to participate.
We all know that Sarah Palin will be bringing her big hair, tortured syntax, scrawl-covered hands, and legion of racist militia members to Boston this month for a "Tea Party," but what, if anything are we going to do about it? The members of b0st0n.livejournal have cooked something up: Throw a real tea party!
New Englanders are terrified of Texas. When this Bostonist mentions that she once lived in the Lone Star State, people's eyes bulge out of their heads. They clutch their chests. They back up a little bit. They root around for a surgical mask to protect themselves from any residual Texagerms that may still be lingering. So it's funny that terrible Texas is now sort of setting itself up to be the next Massachusetts—assuming it doesn't learn from our mistake.
The national insanity over health care town hall meetings came to Dartmouth last night, and Congressman Barney Frank created an Internet sensation when he verbally smacked down a question comparing health care reform to Naziism.
Perhaps you heard something about it on the news? Or did you see the Bostonist photos? Tea-bagging his hit the mainstream. (At least, we heard it called tea-bagging on several news programs.)
Did you happen to walk by the State House today and notice a bunch of Gadsden flags and people in tri-corner hats? The Common hosted a thousand or so variously-clad protesters this afternoon as part of a nationwide protest movement of "Tax Day Tea Parties" scheduled for April 15th. Bostonist was there with camera in hand surveying the scene.
Gary Vaynerchuk has a message for Bay Staters: Rise up against your oppressors.
As Bostonians we pride ourselves on our history as a city steeped in sea-faring tradition. Whether it be our statuesque U.S.S. Constitution, the ubiquitous story of the Boston Tea Party, or the ever-present duck boats, Boston and the ocean will be forever intertwined. As such, Bostonist presents some last-minute gift ideas that pay homage to our salty roots.
--A new company, FlexPetz, will let you rent a dog for a few hours so you can enjoy canine companionship without getting up in the cold to walk the critter. Wouldn't it be great if you could just rent human companionship for a few hours? Oh, wait. That's illegal. Nevermind. [Boston Globe]
The forces behind the Ron Paul Blimp suffered many delays. For a while, it seemed like the blimp promoting the campaign of Republican candidate/Internet sensation Ron Paul might not launch. But they launched their blimp this morning at 9:00 am from Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
Republican presidential candidate and Internet sensation Ron Paul doesn't need Oprah. He doesn't need connections to the hot-shot politicians. He just needs a blimp. Ron Paul's supporters are sending up a blimp for an East Coast tour from North Carolina, through DC and New York, to Boston. According to the flight plan on the Ron Paul Blimp site, the balloon will launch Wednesday in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and then travels north, flying over...
Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston's firefighters bent over backwards all week long - first, they fought flames pouring from the Boston Tea Party museum, and then a restaurant fire killed two and injured many more. Their efforts make everything else - like Tom...